Kaja spent years in the female-only prison “La Giudecca” in
Venice. Our collection harbours her correspondence with
Renato Curcio, full of little paintings and drawings with the
recurring symbol of the “Tree-woman”.
During her stay in prison, Kaja collected the background
stories of some of her companions about the tattoos they wore
on their skin. The most common of these symbols recur in her
drawings: the crying eye, for example, or the cell bars, explicit
references to the sorrow of reclusion. In one of her works,
prison is presented as if it was in Chinese boxes: one prison
inside one prison inside one prison... More and more
oppressive, but always the same.